

BOOPS. 



Other characters as in the sparoid fishes; teeth of the outward row 

 broad and cutting; mouth rather small. 



BOGUE. 



BOX. OXEYE. 



Bobps, Box, Boez, Jonston; Table 20, f. 8. 



Hoops primus, "Willottghby; p. 317, tab. v. 8. 



Sparus hoops, LiNNiEUS. 



Boops or Box vulgaris, Cuvier. 



Yarrell; Br. Fishes, 2nd. Sup. 



Le Spare Bague, Lacepede. 



Bogue, Risso. 



In some parts of the European side of the Mediterranean 

 the Bogue is a common fish, and where it frequents it is in 

 great abundance. Outside the Straits of Gibraltar also, it is 

 found far to the south, so that it is known in the Canary- 

 Islands, and even, perhaps, in the West Indies. But it is not 

 commonly found to wander northward; and therefore it is not 

 a fish that we should expect to visit our coasts, for the in- 

 fluences which point its course in that direction, across such 

 a depth of water, however powerful, appear to be exceedingly 

 obscure. 



The first British example we have a record of was caught 

 in a ground-sean, in company with Grey Mullets, in the early 

 part of October, 1842, at St. Mawes, in the harbour of Fal- 

 mouth, and fortunately came into the hands of Alfred Fox, 

 Esq., who caused a drawing to be taken, from which our 



